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'Hava Nagila' enters race for Christmas No. 1 in Britain
By Sara Miller, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Jewish songs, Hava Nagila

British singer Lauren Rose has released a modern version of traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagila," and gambling pundits have even given odds on the song to take the top spot in the U.K. Christmas pop charts.

According the British newspaper The Sun, bookmaker William Hill has given 17-year-old Lauren Rose a 16-1 shot at having Britain's best-selling song on December 25.

The Sun also reports that Lauren's father, Mark Goldberg, has quit his job as boss of Bromley Football Club to manage his daughter's music career.
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Lauren's version of "Hava Nagila" is not the first by contemporary acts from both the pop and classical worlds. The list of musicians to perform the song includes Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Harry Belafonte, Julie Andrews, Ben Folds and violinist and conductor Andre Rieu.

The song, whose title translates as "Let Us Rejoice," is de rigueur at Jewish celebrations, and is widely attributed to Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, who is believed to have penned the song at the close of World War One.

Watch Lauren Rose's performance of "Hava Nagila":

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  1.   I guess "Biladi, Biladi" just wasn`t good enough 13:43  |  Yonatan 17/12/07
  2.   save your money 13:46  |  Chris Linthwaite 17/12/07
  3.   Beautiful Thing 13:47  |  Dani Reiss 17/12/07
  4.   Yiddish in England? 13:57  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  5.   Heres a Suggstion for Lauren 13:59  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  6.   hahahah 14:09  |  Nephtaly 17/12/07
  7.   16 to 1? More like 160 to 1, I suspect. 14:17  |  Michael 17/12/07
  8.   #4 Proof that Sullivan is not what he claims to be 14:20  |  Yonatan 17/12/07
  9.   yonathan on christmas 14:34  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  10.   Mr Sullivan.... 14:46  |  Uday 17/12/07
  11.   CHECK OUT THIS VERSION - SKAVANAGILA 14:55  |  B`Galil 17/12/07
  12.   Message # 4 is Fake Clickfool 14:56  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  13.   Message # 4 is Fake Clickfool 14:56  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  14.   Uday on vitrol, anti semitism and down right erroneous 15:10  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  15.   Urgh, that SUCKS!!! She`s bound to lose.... it`s a terrible song. 15:15  |  POP 17/12/07
  16.   Yonathan,Paddy Sullivan ,a defrocked Catholic priest 15:16  |  Absolute Sweden 17/12/07
  17.   Clickfool, they`re out in full force today 15:20  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  18.   Ole Vodka face up in Sweden 15:26  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  19.   13, Yakov(Esau) ....Liar Liar, pants on fire.... 15:29  |  Uday 17/12/07
  20.   to CLick--its the Mossad, stupid! 15:30  |  Agent 99 17/12/07
  21.   For Yaakov Sullivan # 15 15:38  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  22.   Urgh, that SUCKS!!! She`s bound to lose.... it`s a terrible song. 15:38  |  POP 17/12/07
  23.   For Click Sullivan 15:38  |  Raoul 17/12/07
  24.   Worse than that, Yaakov 15:41  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  25.   Uday, for your mindset, of course 15:46  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  26.   For Agent 99 # 20 15:48  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  27.   14 Jackoff Sullivan 15:51  |  Yadu 17/12/07
  28.   Clickfool, mustn`t let that get out! 15:53  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  29.   To Yaakov Sullivan #15 15:54  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  30.   Yahdayahda yahdadoo!!!!! #27 15:59  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  31.   Nice try by Lauren Rose but too many antisemites in UK 16:12  |  Aaron 17/12/07
  32.   Click 16:14  |  Agent 99 17/12/07
  33.   yuckoff sullivan -rejected by CLick 16:16  |  darwins brightest 17/12/07
  34.   #8 Yonatan 16:25  |  Edith 17/12/07
  35.   darwins brightest on being bright #33 16:26  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  36.   Beautiful 16:32  |  Edith 17/12/07
  37.   Beautiful girl and song, how some bigots can think otherwise? 16:35  |  The Equalizer 17/12/07
  38.   Too much saccharine for the ears and eyes 16:42  |  Richard S 17/12/07
  39.   to Click :) 16:44  |  yaakov sullivan 17/12/07
  40.   Mark Goldberg 16:45  |  Simon 17/12/07
  41.   Chill out! 16:46  |  Paul 17/12/07
  42.   I would Nagila her 16:55  |  Yeah Baby 17/12/07
  43.   ummm what??? 16:57  |  Mike 17/12/07
  44.   top twenty 17:01  |  scanadu 17/12/07
  45.   Clickfool 17:09  |  Hilda 17/12/07
  46.   Yaacov Sullivan 17:13  |  Hilda 17/12/07
  47.   the old good James / `yaakov` stikes again! 17:16  |  goldenberg 17/12/07
  48.   Yonaton 17:17  |  Hilda 17/12/07
  49.   poor James / `yaakov` 17:21  |  goldenberg 17/12/07
  50.   Yonaton on christmas ans to Sullivan 17:21  |  Hilda 17/12/07
  51.   Joyful 17:22  |  Edifice 17/12/07
  52.   #4 - Clickfool`s ignorance 17:27  |  Eric 17/12/07
  53.   Needless to say, # 29 is Fake Clickfool 17:30  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  54.   #52 Eric 17:39  |  tbora 17/12/07
  55.   You nearly won it, Hilda #45 17:40  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  56.   Sullivan`s "I have a life" in a NY Grocery Fruit Dept 17:41  |  Smadar 17/12/07
  57.   For Eric # 52 17:43  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  58.   Re Click #4 17:43  |  Esther 17/12/07
  59.   That`s sick 17:46  |  margaret 17/12/07
  60.   to Richard 17:46  |  Hilda 17/12/07
  61.   Will the real Clickfool stand up? 17:47  |  Loofkcilc 17/12/07
  62.   Sullivan the hypocrite 17:48  |  Hilda 17/12/07
  63.   Re genuine Click #12 17:48  |  Esther 17/12/07
  64.   Profile for Sullivan, Y. 17:51  |  NYC grocer 17/12/07
  65.   Sorry Click but.... 17:54  |  Yadu 17/12/07
  66.   Clickfool #4 18:03  |  Howard 17/12/07
  67.   best christmas song 18:56  |  wh 17/12/07
  68.   Jews for Jesus 19:01  |  Anatolee 17/12/07
  69.   any cute girl in a miniskirt 19:03  |  Av 17/12/07
  70.   The fruit grocer in NYC 19:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 17/12/07
  71.   Just Be Grateful 19:24  |  MichaelF 17/12/07
  72.   #27 Yadu 19:42  |  Sam 17/12/07
  73.   #4 19:48  |  Moshe 17/12/07
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  75.   Awful rendition 19:51  |  europa 17/12/07
  76.   #15 19:52  |  Moshe 17/12/07
  77.   For Sam, on Yadu`s intellectually superior Jews # 72 19:58  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
  78.   Why is this girl called Lauren Rose? 20:01  |  Little Mo 17/12/07
  79.   to Click and Sam..no, because 20:12  |  Yadu 17/12/07
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  81.   Why have a nagillah when you you can have two? 20:30  |  H 17/12/07
  82.   For Yadu # 79 20:31  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
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  84.   Wall 20:40  |  Clickfool 17/12/07
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